Designing and Programming Survey Forms

Data, Democracy & Development (DDD) summer field practice course

Ayush Patel

At Azim Premji University

10 May, 2025

Hello

I am Ayush.

I am a researcher working at the intersection of data, development and economics.

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Get a working understanding of how components of survey tech work.

Design and program a survey questionnaire to make it available for field use.

Extract the collected data for analyses.

Build an intuition on how to ask questions.

Advanced methods of communicating with servers using API.

Data encryption for sensitive data.

Building data pipelines that extract, clean and present analyses.

Sampling theory, and analyses.

and how it works

But Why should I know this stupid tech stuff? ¹